Two remarkable cases have been before Mr. Justice Barnes in the Divorce Court this week. One was a petition for divorce brought by Mrs. Chandos Pole, of Kidding-ton Hall, Woodstock. The painful feature was the fact that the "'intervener" was a lady who is new married but was single and engaged to be married at the time of Mr. Chandos Pole's alleged infid 'The interest of the case lay, however, in the light it threw on the very "free ai manners of a certain class of hunting folk, The Hon. Mrs. Rupert Craven, the intervener, a young lady then living "in apartments' by herself, was apparently in the habit of sitting up with a male visitor till the small hours in her rooms drinking whiskies and sodas and smoking cigarettes, and she apparently saw nothing very shocking in gentlemen using the adjective ensanguined' in the vernacular" when talking to ladies. The Jury granted Mrs. Chandos Pole a separation, on the ground of cruelty, but disagreed as to the more serious misconduct. In the other case a dentist, named Clark, sought a separation on the ground of his wife's cruelty. The lady, who admits that she is "hysterical and occasionally gives way to violent temper," was able to show, however, that her husband was by no means irreproachable in the matter of temper, and the Jury gave a verdict in her favour.
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